Ticket-delivering machine.



No. 839,457. PATENTED DEG. 25, 1906y H. H. CUMMINGS.

TICKET DELIVERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. l5, 1905.

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APPLIGATIUN FILED Nov.15, 1905.

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HENRY H. OUMMINGS, OF NEWTON, lHASSAOHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ADAMS D. OLAFLIN, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TICKET-DELIVERING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed November 15, 1905. Serial No. 287.438.

To cir/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. CUMMINGs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newton, in the countykof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Delivering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to coin-controlled ticket marking,.delivering, and severing devices; and it consists in sundry mechanical improvements by the aid of which the marking of a ticket-strip is effectuated in part by the insertion of a proper coin into the mechanism and in part by the operation of a train of mechanical devices which is unlocked by the insertion of the coin and wherein the marking, delivery, and severing of the ticket are accomplished in a stated cycle which cannot berepeated until a subsequent coin is introduced into the mechanism.

The particular and especial purpose for which my invention and improvements are designed and adapted is to furnish the operators of railway-cars or other public conveyances with an efficient, convenient, and reliable mechanical safeguard against the fraudulent use by employees of transferslips which are at the present time so generally used. Other analogous situations may be imagined or may arise which call for analogous protective measures, and in such cases the utility of these inventions and improvements may be extended beyond the specific instances mentioned.

The apparatus as a whole comprises ticket printing and delivering devices which will be found desirable if not practically necessary for the purposes to which this mechanism is addressed. These devices are therefore described herein, although they are reserved for claim in an application concurrently pending herewith filed by me, which is a division of this application.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure l is a front elevation of the casing of my ticket marking and delivering mechanism, showing the operating-handle and the coin-apertures. Fig. 2 is a view of the same with one of its covers removed. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 8 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of the rear of the device with the cover removed from the casing. Fig. 5 is a section along the line 5 5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 illustrates one of the tickets after it has been marked and severed from the strip, the time-stamp impression upon said ticket not being shown in this figure. Fig. 7 is a view of the interior of the casing, showing the side of the timepiececompartment, the slot wherethrough the ticket-slip emerges, and the time-stamp dial and other stamping-type which may be supplied, if desired. Fig. S is a view of the strip-holder and strip-severing devices shown removed from the casing. Fig. 9 is an elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the main operating-shaft of the machine, and Fig. 10 is a sectional view from below, on a similar enlarged scale, along the line 10 10, Fig. 2, showing the inside of the upper and curved portion of the strip-holder.

The ticket marking and delivering mechanism is inclosed in a metallic case or box H, Fig. l, provided with sliding covers, as H, which may be locked in position. For convenience the casinT may be supplied externally with clips or lmks (not shown) whereby to suspend it around the neck of the railwaycar conductor or other oflicial. In the front cover H', I provide anumber of parallel slots H3, each of which is of the proper size to admit of the passage of a coinsay a fivecent piece-and alongside of the slots H3, I provide also a series' of slots H4, through which may be displayed to view a tablet which rests just under the cover H and on which may be printed, as shown, the appropriate names or abbreviations thereof of as many streets or routes .as may be provided for by transfers to be issued by the railwayconductor carrying this ticket stamping, marking, and delivering device. The handle H"l is pivoted to swing externally over the sliding cover HQ carrying the shaft K, and is provided with a segmental slot h5, through which projects the driving-pin lc of the shaft K, this slot permitting the handle to be swung freely back and forth through the angular distance subtended by the slot h5. The normal position of the handle H5 is indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l, and when in this position the handle serves as a shield or cover for the multiple coin-aperture H3. Vhen it is desired to insert a coin into any of the coin-passages in the said multiple aperture, the handle H5 can be swung to one side, as shown in Fig. l. A cut-away portion of the cover H is filled by the plate IOO lstrip E perforations E3 are made.

H2, so that the cover H may be slid outward under the handle H5 and past the shaft K. Referring to Fig. 5, it willbe seen. that inside the casing H, I receptacle E, in which is laid the ticket-strip E', the same being folded back and forth` vstrip-holder to a pointne'ar the cutting mechanism F. At regular intervals along the (See Fig.

6.) Each measured space on the ticketstrip E is printed with the matter appropriate to the situation, the transfer destinations being printed in a column to correspond with the column of coin-apertures H3. Preliminary marking of the ttcket-strip.-'

Directly beneath the coin-apertures H3- there is placed a semicylindrical coin-receptacle B, Figs. 2 and 3, and at one side of this coinreceptacle (to the right thereof as viewed in Fig. 2) appear-the series of ticket markers or perforators A, whereof the perforating or marking points a lie in the apertures a2 in the strip-holder D, the Wipers atstanding in the path of one edge of the inserted coin and the standards a5 being pivoted .to a rod aG and providedl with feet a7, yagainst which press the leaves as of the spring secured to the base of the coin-receptacle B by screws, as a9.' Vhen a passenger on handing his fare to the conductor says, for instance, that he wishes a transfer tol Moody andMain streets, the-conductor slips a five-cent piece into the slot H3,which stands abreast of the i words Moody-Main, which show through.`

one of the slots H4, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. causes one edge of the coin to press against the wiper a4 and tolthrust the marker A sidewise, so that the marking-point apasses intov the aperture a2 and `makes Aa mark or perforation in the ticket-strip, which after the ticket hasfbeen removed and severed in the manner to be describedwill show somewhat as the mark e in Fig. 6.

Release of the stamping and feeding mechanisrn.-As the coin inserted in one of the slots H3 isfurtherv pressed iinto-'the coinreceptacle B it mustv pass into and through f one of the notches c inthe rocker-plate C,

provide a compartment orv This act of vinsertion of the coin` path of the segmental disk k', so that thev shaft K, tozfwhich the segmental disk e is secured, may not rotate. The rotation of the. shaft K in the opposite direction is controlled and restrained by the pawl r, which is .controlled by the spring r, this pawl r working in the ratchet-wheel k2. When the rocker-plate C is moved by the insertion of a coin, the 'wiper c2 thereon presses against the tail of the latch c, depressing the outer end of the same against the stress of the spring e8, thus releasing the'shaft Kl and allowing the segmental disk k toturn as the handle H5 is-rotatei clockwise, Fig. 1.

Successive operations of the main shaft.- The first'officeperformed by the rotating shaft K vis the release of the coin from the grip of the rocker -plate C. This rockerplateis provided with a finger e7, Figs. 2 and 5, whichstands in. the path of the segmental disk 7c, and as this disk is rotated it presses against the said finger and` thrusts the rockerplate C stillI further from its normal position',l

freeing the coin',=which then` drops lfrom 4the cylindrical receptacle B' into the lower compartment of the casing H. The neXt succeeding function of the rotating shaft K is to release the `ticket-stamping mechanism. A detent p is pivotally hung inthe path of the pin k7, which is carried by the shaft K, Figs. 2 and 9, and they-other end p of this detent engages.A the downwardly-curved end ofthe strip-carrier D, so that the latter is unable to move toward; the Astam-ping types. The strip-carrier Dis held normally in this locked position by the spring D2. (Shown in Fig. 4.) When thepin lc7lifts the-detent p and removes the-catch p at itsend from engagement with the strip-carrier D, thisV carrier is then-free to turn upon its pivot d. The rotating shaft K neXt throws the strip-carrier D into-pressure contact with thetypes L L L2 v(shown in Fig. 7) and performs this-operation by means of the coaction ofthe wiper-roller 764, carried by the vlug k3, with the'cam-block D', whichf is secured on the inside of the stripcarrier D. yThis coaction forces the carrier D intocontact with the types'and the strip b, lying in the-carrier D,` is properly impressed. Thecover d4 of-'the carrier is' cutawayto form a suitable opening, as at L3, Fig. 8, through which thetypes operate, they yielding pad e2, over which the strip passes, providinga proper surface to Vpermitthe action of the types. The ticket-strip having been indented by the types L L L2, the roll #passes bythecam-block D, the spring Dzreturns the strip-'carrier D tol itsnorrn al position, and theroll -704 next -makes contact with the arm f1 of the bell-crank lever, `whose'otherarm f isconnected to the hanging link f 8,which in turn'connects vwith the lever f7, which is pivoted upon the pin d', which serves also 'for IOC TIO

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the pivot for the strip-carrier D. A spring f 11, Figs. 4 and 5, resists the movement of the bell-crank j f and would return the bellcrank lever to its normal position after the passage of the roll 7ct were it not for the catch fwhiclnpivoted atf and controlled by the spring f 17, (see Fig. 4,) automatically opposes its notched end f over the top of the cutter F, which is depressed by the lever f7, which projects into the aperturef of the cutter-plate, this plate being mounted to slide upon the back plate F, (being secured thereto in this sliding relation by the screws f3, which play in slots cut in said cutter-plate F, the

cutting edge j" thereof being shown clearly in Fig. S.) Thus by the catch f4 the cutterplate F is held against the stress of the spring f 11. After accomplishing the setting of the cutter-plate the shaft K in its further rotation feeds the ticket-strip downward, so as to protrude the end thereof through the slot H. (Shown in Figs. 5 and 7.) The feeding of the strip is effected by the rotation of feedrolls d and d, the roll d being actuated by its pinion, which meshes with the gear d, which is carried by the yoke d On the shaft K the projecting segment strikes the toothed disk di", and thereby turns gear d against spring d, Fig. l0, accurately to mesh with segment-gear 7c, which moves the yoke (ZG upward, rocking it upon its pivot, (shown in Fig. 5,) this rocking movement being against the stress of the spring d8, which presses against the tail Z7 of the yoke d. On the back side of the mechanism, as seen in Fig. 4, there is pivoted the bell-crank (114 d1, the end d having a pin-and-slot connection with the yoke d and the end di* having a pin-and-slot connection with the strip-detent (Z13. )When in its normal position, the yoke d, through the connections of the bell-crank d d 15, holds the strip detent d pressed down upon the paper strip, which it reaches through the slot di". This strip-detent is provided so as to prevent retraction of the strip when the strip-holder D is pressed forward against the printing-types. After the stripdetent (Z13 is released the further rotation of the shaft K carries the segmental gear k into mesh with the gear-wheel d, and the train of gearing rotates the feed-roll d and feeds forward the strip, pushing it out from the slot h, the transverse slot in the knife-plate F being held depressed, so as to permit the passage of the said strip. This operation completes the cycle performed by the main shaft K of the machine.

Severing the ticket strip-Referring to Fig. 4, the trigger g projects into the ticketcarrier D through the slot gi". (Shown in Fig. S.) The trigger-arm g is pivoted to the crank-arm of the piece g2, which is springcontrolledby the spring g3. This piece g2 appears also in Fig. 5 and carries the lug g4 in position to operate upon the knife-catch f4.

The end of the trigger g is of proper size and depth to enter one of the previously-prepared perforations in the strip ef, so that when the railway car conductor or other operator takes hold of the end of the protruded ticketstrip and draws it out the trigger g, falling into one of the said perforations E3, is carried downward by the strip, and by the turning of the piece g2 the lug g* presses the knife-catch out of engagement with the knife-plate F, which under the stress of spring f 11 snaps upward and severs the ticket at the proper point.

In order to insure the proper operation of the trigger g, there is arranged the guideplate M, pivoted at fm, as seen in Fig. 4. This guide-plate has a cani-slot in its arm m, said slot being shown at fm2 embracing the pin m3, which is fixed to the link f8.. The other arm of the guide-plate M appears at 'm4, where it is bent to form a vertical openended trough whereof the sides are m5 and mf. When the link f 8 is lifted by the action of shaft K upon bell-crank lever f f1, the arm m of plate M is swung inward toward the strip-carrier D, so that the trigger g, which is provided for the purpose with the laterally-projecting pin g, (see Fig. 7 said pin gi traveling between the trough edges m5 m, is constrained to descend in the proper path and is instantly lifted out of engagement with the strip when the link f s descends in response to the action of spring f 11 as the strip is out by the knife F, the descent of the disk throwing the plate M outward.

T he zime-sta/mp-T he time-stamp (shown at L in Fig. 7) may be operated by a timepiece N, inserted in the proper compartment or receptacle in the casing H. Other types, such as shown at L L2, may be provided at will.

I claiml. The combination with a strip-holder, a plurality of coin-passages, a corresponding plurality of independent strip-markers, to impress a strip by the act of inserting a coin in one of the coin-passages, a movable member opposite said. strip-markers below said apertures, adapted to be moved by a coin inserted through4 any of the apertures, and connections from said movable member to a latch, to move the same from its normal position, the latch, and mechanism restrained by the latch. in its normal position.

2. The combination with a strip-holder, of a coin-passage, a marker, a movable markeractuator normally projecting into the coinpassage, so as to be displaced by the insertion of a coin and to actuate the marker by such displacementand an aperture in the striphold er wherethrough the marker operates on the strip to impress the same, a movable member opposite said strip-markers below said apertures, adapted to be moved by a coin inserted through any of the apertures,

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and connections from said movable member to a latch, to move the same from its normal position, the latch., and mechanism restrained by the latch in its normal position.

3. .The combination with a strip-holder, of a plurality of coin-passages, a corresponding plurality of markers, a movable marker-actuator for each marker, each. actuator normally projecting into a coin-passage so as to be displaced bythe insertion of'a coin-.and to actuate its appropriatemarker by such displacement=,a movable memberopposite said stripmarkers below said apertures, adapted to be moved by a coin inserted through any ofthe apertures, and connections from said movable member to a latch, to move the same from its normaly position),v the:V latch, and mechanismrestrainedby the latch in its normal position.

4. The combination with a strip-holder, of a plurality of coin-passages, Aa corresponding plurality of markers, anaperture in the stripholder vfor each marker, a movableimarkeractuator for each marker, each actuator normallyl projecting` into acoin-passage so as to be displaced by the insertion of a ooin',xthere by to move its appropriatemarker in an aperture in the strip-holder, a movablememberl opposite saidstrip-marlers below said apertures, adapted to be moved by a coin inserted through any of'the apertures, and connections from said -movable member to a latch,

to movevthe-same from its normal position, i

said normal position,.the markers. movable against said spring in'response tothe forcible insertion .of a coin in one of said entrances, a movable member opposite-,said strip-markers below said yapertures,adapted to. be moved by a coin'insertede through any of the apertures, and connections from said-:movable member to a latch, to` movethe same from its normal position, the, latch, and mechanism restrained by the latch in its normalposition. y

6. In a ticket-delivering:mechanism, a-casing, a shaft within. said ycasing and anactuating-handle lexterior, thereto, a Vstop on said shaft, a latch normally inthe 'path ofthe stop, to restraintheshaftzfrom rotation in one direction,y a'ratchet-pawl to prevent rotation of theshaft in thefother direction, a

coin-passage in the casing, a rocker-plate in the path of a coin,1connectionsbetween*the rocker-plateand the latch to movef the latter out of the path ofthe stop by they act of inserting a coin, afinger, carried by Vrthe-rockerplate inthe fpath of: the stop, to. move f. the

rocker-plate to release an inserted coin.

7. In a ticket-delivering v mechanism, a casing, a shaft kwithin said-casing, a coinaperture in the casing, anactuating-handle for the-shaftexterior tothe casing,1said handle normally .covering the coin-aperture, and a loose connectionbetweensaidl handle and shaft to permit limited movement of the handle to uncover theaaperturea stop onsaid shaft, and a latch-normally `in the pathof the stop, and means to move the latchout of the way of the stop by. the,Y insertion of a coin through theaperture.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, thisQth lday of November, 1905.

`HENRY H; OUMMINGS. Witnesses:

JOSEPH T. BRENNAN, f C. D. WoonBERRY. 

